English Online Dictionary. What means partly? What does partly mean?
English
Etymology
From part + -ly.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɑɹtli/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɑːtli/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tli
Adverb
partly (not comparable)
- In part, or to some degree, but not completely.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:partially
- Antonyms: see Thesaurus:completely
Related terms
- partially
Collocations
Translations
Further reading
- “partly”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “partly”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “partly”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Anagrams
- paltry, raptly